Preparing the Journey
1 A Wo rld of Knowing 1
2 What Is Experience? (HEGELS INTRODUCTION) 11
Consciousness
3 Of Mere Being (SENS E-CERTAINTY) 29
4 The Crisis of Thinghood (PERCEPTION) 40
5 The Dynamics of Self-Expression (UNDERSTANDING) 55
6 Principles of Motion and the Motion of Principles
(UNDERSTANDING, CONTINUED) 70
Self�Consciousness
7 On Life and Desire 91
8 The Violent Self: In Quest of Recognition 109
9 Freedom as Thinking 126
10 Infinite Yearning and the Rift in Man 137
Reason
11 Idealism 157
12 Adventures of a Rational Observer
166
13 The Romance of Reason 186
14 Rational Animals and the Birth of Spirit 207
Spirit
1 S Ethical Life: Laws in Conflict 235
16 Interlude 260
17 Culture as Alienation 268
18 From Pure Insight to Pure Te rror:
The Darkness of the Enlightenment 292
19 Pure Willing and the Moral Wo rld-View 315
20 Conscience and Reconciliation: Hegel's Divine Comedy 334
Religion
21 The Depiction of God 361
22 The Greek Phase 374
23 Christianity, the Figure of Science 396
Absolute Knowing
24 Speculative Good Friday: The To p of Hegel 's Ladder 423